Letter: Writer responds to letter on Mideast

1. Apartheid is not democracy. Face it, a government/state based on a particular race or religion is not a democracy.

2. What we have here in Palestine is a European imperialist style land grab based on greed not history. The seizure of property by force and the ruination of the lives of an entire people is not based on scripture. It's called theft.

3. Our ally? When they have received aid in a conflict from Israel?

4. Needing our aid? The per capita income of an Israeli citizen is greater than that of the people of Spain.

5. Implying that Mr. McCauley was racist. The world has overwhelmingly (excluding Israel and the U.S.) condemned Zionism as racism. Despite all of the bullying that we and Israel apply to nations, the idea of a racial and spiritual superiority that absolves crimes against humanity is, yes, racist.

6. Crimes against humanity. The destruction of homes and the destruction of food are against international law. They are only steps toward genocide by exposure and starvation against a race or nation.

7. Nuclear blackmail? Perhaps the $4 billion a year sent to Israel has something to do with the 200 plus nuclear warheads in the possession of a group of fanatics who obviously have little regard for survival except their own.

8. The Stern Gang was a small group as is Hamas.

9. Finally if their cause is so popular with the people of the USA, run their funding through donations rather than bleeding our government and our people of needed money.